France is engaged in "multiple contacts" aimed at averting an escalation of hostilities on Lebanon's southern border between the Shia movement HizbAllah and the Israeli army, the French foreign ministry said Sunday. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri earlier Sunday urged France and the United States to "intervene" to calm the tensions, adding that French President Emmanuel Macron had spoken by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President ...
![Four Hezbollah members went on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering Hariri in a 2005 car bombing, with sectarian tensions running high at home. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Par7764185.jpg?itok=nEFwDdiC "Four Hezbollah members went on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering Hariri in a 2005 car bombing, with sectarian tensions running high at home. [AFP]")
![Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani says Iran is making sacrifices for Hezbollah [Press TV]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/328504_Ali-Larijani.jpg?itok=PNhWurfz "Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani says Iran is making sacrifices for Hezbollah [Press TV]")
![Four Hezbollah members went on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering Hariri in a 2005 car bombing, with sectarian tensions running high at home. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Par7764466.jpg?itok=I8ytAqp2 "Four Hezbollah members went on trial in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal accused of murdering Hariri in a 2005 car bombing, with sectarian tensions running high at home. [AFP]")
![Although the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been heralded as a watershed moment for international justice, many in the country say they have very little faith in the U.N.-backed court. [ijhl]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/STL.jpg?itok=-SJb_Byb "Although the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been heralded as a watershed moment for international justice, many in the country say they have very little faith in the U.N.-backed court. [ijhl]")
![Sharon bore responsibility "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge" and "not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed." [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6283880.jpg?itok=O5y5T4Ty "Sharon bore responsibility \"for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge\" and \"not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed.\" [AFP]")
![Iranian Navy fires a Mehrab (Altar) missile during the Velayat-90 naval drills in the general area of Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012. [Press TV]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/mbadakhsh20120714103748793.jpg?itok=z-G_toaG "Iranian Navy fires a Mehrab (Altar) missile during the Velayat-90 naval drills in the general area of Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012. [Press TV]")
![Former Israeli prime minister dies, eight years after he went into coma following a stroke. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6280875.jpg?itok=hl58h4wj "Former Israeli prime minister dies, eight years after he went into coma following a stroke. [AFP]")
![Defense lawyers for Salim Ayyash at the Special Tribunal of Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. [The Daily Star]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/239859_mainimg.jpg?itok=9mFQOFMx "Defense lawyers for Salim Ayyash at the Special Tribunal of Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. [The Daily Star]")
